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Another shadowbanned user here. Used to be an occasional poster, made posts if I had something meaningful to add. At some point I noticed that I never got replies, but didn't think…

Yeah, HN hates me for some reason :( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13789288

That's a really strange phone you're describing. Did it have a single hole on the dial? Where are you from? I too used rotary phones - I'm 28 (if it makes a difference) and I grew …

On page 6 it says: > Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SP2) in China only For me, a let-down is that it doesn't have HDMI though.

The author is pretty well-known https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Garrett

I'm pretty sure wild strawberries existed in Europe before, they were just smaller but just as good https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Midsommarb%C3%A4r.jp...

In this case, not necessarily. For example, here's a de/re-compiled version of Starcraft for the ARM/Linux-based OpenPandora, with no help from Blizzard: https://pyra-handheld.com/…

It's in the article... > Finally, when you drink your calories instead of eating them, your brain doesn’t get the same “I’m full” signal that it does from solid food, even though y…

Sourceforge is gone after the mass-exodus following its questionable practices. The github is here, last commit a few months ago: https://github.com/nicm/fdm/commits/master Not sur…

I used to use OfflineIMAP, and then tried mbsync, and it's much faster.

> Do you really think he should be in prison for intellectual property infringement ? This is loaded language. When you say "intellectual property infringement" people think of imp…

Companies only act ethically if it has a potential to affect their bottom line and they have the foresight. It's not just tech, think pharmaceuticals or finance. As for naivete - a…

You have to be naive to give a service access to a trove of your private data and expect them to just leave it there...

That's a good question! Has anyone ever met a male Russian programmer? I don't think I've ever heard of one! /s

Sure, as Congressman Sensenbrenner said, “Well, you know... nobody’s got to use the Internet” http://wapo.st/2nPh3JN

My old manager wanted me to install WhatsApp. WhatsApp wanted to access my phone's address book so that it could upload all of my contact info to their [Facebook's] servers. I deni…

Well, considering that was written a decade ago, it doesn't really answer my question... http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=General_Inform...

But only for a very short period of time (4 seconds on average).

How does it compare with Claws Mail [0]? I've always assumed Claws is the more full-featured fork of Sylpheed, but seeing that they've diverged over a decade ago and are both still…

Twitter's character is the Fail Whale.

#include int main() { int *x = malloc(sizeof(int)); return 0; }

The Linux touchpad driver is extremely configurable. Try playing around with synclient. https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/synclient.1.h... https://www.x.org/archive/X1…

More like: "Non-living things don't move. The bus moves. Therefore, the bus is alive." This is false because there exist things that are non-living but move. Similarly, the origina…

But the premise "not alive => doesn't need resources" is false because there exist things are "not necessarily alive" that need resources. Therefore, the argument is invalid.

> but the "ridiculousness" of this overhead is imaginary. A few weeks ago: VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394…